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Close season 2017, playing devil's advocate


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It's close season 2017 and Saints have just qualified for the Europa league for the 3rd season in a row while across the Forest plucky Bournemouth have just been relegated after 2 years in the Premiership. The loyal Koeman's contract has now run down and he leaves for Barcelona/Holland.

 

Saints turn to Eddie Howe to be their new manager, safe in the knowledge with his wife not keen to leave the area, his appointment could be a long standing one. Far-fetched? You heard it here first oh in the other direction, Eastleigh have beaten relegated Portsmouth on the last day to gain promotion to League I. Portsmouth get ready for the Vauxhall Conference with a mouth watering local derby with Havant the pick of their fixtures.

 

Warning: this thread will be revisited by Trousers in June 2017 so careful how much you pour scorn now.

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It's close season 2017 and Saints have just qualified for the Europa league for the 3rd season in a row while across the Forest plucky Bournemouth have just been relegated after 2 years in the Premiership. The loyal Koeman's contract has now run down and he leaves for Barcelona/Holland.

 

Saints turn to Eddie Howe to be their new manager, safe in the knowledge with his wife not keen to leave the area, his appointment could be a long standing one. Far-fetched? You heard it here first oh in the other direction, Eastleigh have beaten relegated Portsmouth on the last day to gain promotion to League I. Portsmouth get ready for the Vauxhall Conference with a mouth watering local derby with Havant the pick of their fixtures.

 

Warning: this thread will be revisited by Trousers in June 2017 so careful how much you pour scorn now.

 

Vauxhall Conference?? Have you just woken up in 1995 again? :mcinnes:

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It's close season 2017 and Saints have just qualified for the Europa league for the 3rd season in a row while across the Forest plucky Bournemouth have just been relegated after 2 years in the Premiership. The loyal Koeman's contract has now run down and he leaves for Barcelona/Holland.

 

Saints turn to Eddie Howe to be their new manager, safe in the knowledge with his wife not keen to leave the area, his appointment could be a long standing one. Far-fetched? You heard it here first oh in the other direction, Eastleigh have beaten relegated Portsmouth on the last day to gain promotion to League I. Portsmouth get ready for the Vauxhall Conference with a mouth watering local derby with Havant the pick of their fixtures.

 

Warning: this thread will be revisited by Trousers in June 2017 so careful how much you pour scorn now.

 

 

WOW !...you really polished your crystal ball for that one, Duncan.........anything else.......or is the image fading now ...?

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It's close season 2017 and Saints have just qualified for the Europa league for the 3rd season in a row while across the Forest plucky Bournemouth have just been relegated after 2 years in the Premiership. The loyal Koeman's contract has now run down and he leaves for Barcelona/Holland.

 

Saints turn to Eddie Howe to be their new manager, safe in the knowledge with his wife not keen to leave the area, his appointment could be a long standing one. Far-fetched? You heard it here first oh in the other direction, Eastleigh have beaten relegated Portsmouth on the last day to gain promotion to League I. Portsmouth get ready for the Vauxhall Conference with a mouth watering local derby with Havant the pick of their fixtures.

 

Warning: this thread will be revisited by Trousers in June 2017 so careful how much you pour scorn now.

 

And while we're out it, are they going to rename the Premier League too? :)

 

I'd be happy with Eddie in two years time. After all, he is the current reigning "Manager of the Decade".

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Ye, but if Bournemouth are going to be the new Swansea won't they also be qualifying for Europe themselves by then?

 

Bournemouth are still backed by unreliable if not downright dodgy sources which is one reason why I think it will end in tears, probably not next season but the one after that, hence my post about Howe jumping ship to join us in 2017. My post might be slightly tongue in cheek but it would not surprise me or disappoint me to see Howe in the SMS hot seat come 2017.

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Bournemouth are still backed by unreliable if not downright dodgy sources which is one reason why I think it will end in tears, probably not next season but the one after that, hence my post about Howe jumping ship to join us in 2017. My post might be slightly tongue in cheek but it would not surprise me or disappoint me to see Howe in the SMS hot seat come 2017.

 

personally i agree with this. i wouldnt be disappointed if he ended up here after RKs reign

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As long as we are throwing out wild predictions: Koeman will extend his contract one year and then take over at Holland. Jurgen Klinsmann will have had enough of the US national job and will become the new manager of Southampton.

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Mourinho states his head is already in Southampton

As is Pep Guardiola's.........which starts the most bizarre auction as they both start a bidding war for the job where they each offer their services for less money than the other.

 

Even more bizarrely this has nothing to do with managing what has fast become the richest club in the world due to the number of exhibition games they have played in North Korea following the sudden fall of the communist regime, and the discovery of larger oil and precious mineral reserves than the whole of the Middle East and South Africa put together under its soil, turning them very quickly into a capitalist state. It emerges that the whole country supports Southampton after a friendship struck up between a couple of the national team players and Terry Paine during the 1966 World Cup. These exhibition games earn Saints per minute what Man City were paid for a whole exhibition game in January 2015 in the middle east which emerged as a sly effort by their owners to inject more cash into the club via the back door and avoid falling foul of FFP. Now all this money has filtered into the accounts Saints can Hoover up any player they wish without fear of sanction to push hard for the elusive CL qualification.

 

Pep and Jose both really want the job as living or having a job in Southampton is the only way they can qualify to buy a residential property on the new waterfront between the Itchen Bridge and the old TVS studios as this has become the most desirable property location in the world with land values that dwarf Sandbanks to mere pennies by comparison, replacing the Northam bridge with a tunnel to lessen road noise saw the prices rise another 45% the day the first car entered the Matt & Franny Tunnel.

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As is Pep Guardiola's.........which starts the most bizarre auction as they both start a bidding war for the job where they each offer their services for less money than the other.

 

Even more bizarrely this has nothing to do with managing what has fast become the richest club in the world due to the number of exhibition games they have played in North Korea following the sudden fall of the communist regime, and the discovery of larger oil and precious mineral reserves than the whole of the Middle East and South Africa put together under its soil, turning them very quickly into a capitalist state. It emerges that the whole country supports Southampton after a friendship struck up between a couple of the national team players and Terry Paine during the 1966 World Cup. These exhibition games earn Saints per minute what Man City were paid for a whole exhibition game in January 2015 in the middle east which emerged as a sly effort by their owners to inject more cash into the club via the back door and avoid falling foul of FFP. Now all this money has filtered into the accounts Saints can Hoover up any player they wish without fear of sanction to push hard for the elusive CL qualification.

 

Pep and Jose both really want the job as living or having a job in Southampton is the only way they can qualify to buy a residential property on the new waterfront between the Itchen Bridge and the old TVS studios as this has become the most desirable property location in the world with land values that dwarf Sandbanks to mere pennies by comparison, replacing the Northam bridge with a tunnel to lessen road noise saw the prices rise another 45% the day the first car entered the Matt & Franny Tunnel.

And Goatboy misses his season ticket renewal due to being sidetracked by a 30 day orgy involving Taylor Swift, Emma Willis, Gemma Arterton, a freezer full of cookie dough Ben and Jerry's and a fridge full of Old Golden Hen.

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And Goatboy misses his season ticket renewal due to being sidetracked by a 30 day orgy involving Taylor Swift, Emma Willis, Gemma Arterton, a freezer full of cookie dough Ben and Jerry's and a fridge full of Old Golden Hen.

In the comfort of your split level very much sought after Penthouse built on the site of the old corporation dump, no doubt.

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And Goatboy misses his season ticket renewal due to being sidetracked by a 30 day orgy involving Taylor Swift, Emma Willis, Gemma Arterton, a freezer full of cookie dough Ben and Jerry's and a fridge full of Old Golden Hen.

 

Blimey GB. Covered all bases there. At least we know how to keep you happy should the need ever arise...

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I heard Howe was almost hired when we hired Adkins, didn't want the job because Cortese wouldn't give him full control of football matters. From quite a good source.

Yeah, I also heard he was interviewed for the job. Should Ron ever leave us, Eddie Howe would be my choice to replace him.

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